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Bronze Contributor

Dec 20, 2017

Tens of Thousands of temp files created by AAD Connect ADDS Heath Monitoring Agent

While investigating a 2008R2 server with low space on the system volume, I discovered over 65,000 .gz files in the directory c:\windows\temp\. Most of the files were under 500B, with some as large a...

Azure Active Directory (AAD)

Identity Management

Josh Villagomez

Microsoft

Jan 24, 2018

Just update on this issue. I consulted the product team and unfortunately, there are no plans to mitigating this issue during this fiscal year. The only workaround as of now is to remove the files manually. I wish I had better news. In due time, I do believe the agent will be improved. - Josh

Steve Whitcher

Bronze Contributor

Jan 25, 2018

Wow, I'm amazed that there are no plans to fix this issue. It should be simple to fix, and is bound to cause problems sooner or later for everyone who uses AAD Connect ADDS Health Monitoring. :(

Adam Fowler
Iron Contributor
Mar 19, 2018
Good news, this has now been fixed :) Client should have auto updated, and temp files not being created anymore.
- Dean_DNE
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 25, 2018
  Can you confirm the version number that included this fix?
  
  I updated to version https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnect-version-history#117500 but it is still generating the temp files.
  - Adam Fowler
    Iron Contributor
    May 03, 2018
    Hi Dean,
    
    Just checked and looks like we have 3.0.176 - You've linked to Azure AD Connect rather than AAD Connect Health... (yeah the names are a bit confusing!).